In Texas, Drax Group has announced a new partnership with Molpus Woodlands Group (Molpus). The agreement will provide Drax with an option to purchase sustainably sourced woody biomass to fuel its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operations in the US Southeast. Drax will have the option to take up to 1 million green […]
In the UAE, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, and CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, have signed a Strategic Supply Partnership (SSP) which will explore the two companies entering long-term green maritime fuels offtake contracts to supply […]
In Texas, Victory Clean Energy Inc’s subsidiary H2 Energy Group Inc., a leading provider of Affordable Sustainable TrueGreen Hydrogen, and Redding Rancheria Economic Development Corporation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Native American communities, are pleased to announce their new venture in Northern California. Through this project, H2 Energy Group will work with […]
In the UK, Brexit and subsequent (European Union) EU rule changes to its Renewable Energy Directive (RED) had threatened to remove all UK farm assured growers from the EU biofuels market at the end of 2023. Red Tractor initiated a UK-wide industry effort to avert this negative outcome. Following two years of detailed submissions with […]
In Texas, Vertex said the company’s feedstock optimization strategy is progressing as expected. As previously communicated, the company expected to receive LCFS credits in the fourth quarter of 2023 for its renewable diesel production volumes produced in the third and fourth quarters of 2023. The initial LCFS credits reflect a temporary carbon intensity (“CI”) score […]
In Nevada, Edgewood Renewables, LLC plans to establish a biorefinery, manufacturing and distribution facility in Clark County. Edgewood is in the process of constructing a biorefinery on the site that will produce more than 120 million gallons of Renewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) each year. It was approved for $11,720,431 in tax abatements. […]
In Slovakia, Evonik has manufactured the first product from its industrial-scale facility for sustainable biosurfactants that has been completed ahead of schedule at its site in Slovakia. The new plant is the first worldwide to produce sustainable rhamnolipid biosurfactants. Evonik’s rhamnolipids are exceptionally high quality and provide the company with a unique market position due […]
In Germany, synthetic biology offers the opportunity to build biochemical pathways for the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2). Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology have developed a synthetic biochemical cycle that directly converts CO2 into the central building block Acetyl-CoA. The researchers were able to implement each of the three cycle modules […]
In Belgium, European renewable ethanol producers have launched a legal challenge to the EU’s FuelEU Maritime Regulation on the grounds that it fails to properly recognize the proven benefits of sustainable crop-based biofuels and has therefore violated several key EU legislative procedures. Companies representing nearly all of the EU’s production of renewable ethanol are seeking […]
In Canada, Enerkem will be retiring its Enerkem Alberta Biofuels (EAB) plant in Edmonton. The EAB facility achieved its main objective of completing the commercial scale-up of Enerkem’s industry-leading technology. With more than 15,000 hours of operation producing ethanol and methanol (ISCC EU and ISCC PLUS certified), the plant facilitated the validation by strategic industry […]
